swifty@fluke.UUCP (steve swift) (01/10/84)
At a Loss Five quid for the sloth, constructed of wickedness. This is a value, says the auctioneer. Ten for a fence to sit on. How much for the sister of charity there, or the synaesthesiac in the purple shirt? A child in the crowd keeps asking who it is that makes icebox light go on. In some back room a counterfeiter mans his press. He's making money toward his own pet senator and pair of reproducing angels. Now the wisdom tree is sold as firewood, felled by lightning, overharvesting, or just an ax. The stroke could have cost us our lives. Where is the genius loci here? The father tells the child there is a little man in each refrigerator, making light of the cold. from "A World of Difference," by Heather McHugh, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1981. uw-beaver \ decvax!microsof \ ucbvax!lbl-csam >!fluke!swifty ssc-vax / allegra /